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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio, our.

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Speaker 2: Two of the program as we roll on here Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with Me, Mike Harmon, Jason

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Speaker 2: Smith back tomorrow, Jared Smith on Loan from Countdown in

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Speaker 2: Instead at Jared Smith Bets is where you find him.

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Speaker 2: He has not quit sports or sports betting.

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Speaker 1: No, he's still here. Guys.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry you did you pull that post down? Did

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Speaker 2: you have to tag it?

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Speaker 1: Did you do? You know what the funny thing is? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: honestly the posts that are a not serious, be very trully,

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Speaker 1: very angry. They do significantly better engagement wise than like me,

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Speaker 1: just like posting my work.

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Speaker 2: No, that's fair. I mean, trolley is always good, which

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Speaker 2: is why I always say, just make sure you spell

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Speaker 2: it right. Mark Harmon has a book coming out, which

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Speaker 2: means I'm gonna get screwed for a couple of months

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Speaker 2: when I do guest spots, Hey, we bring out our

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Speaker 2: guy from Fox Sports Radio. It's Mark. No, No, I

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Speaker 2: will hang up on you if you do that again.

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Speaker 2: We have connection issues. Just just call me Harmon. Let's

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Speaker 2: move on, or jerk as Jason Smith will every once

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Speaker 2: in a while. But we look at the Sporting Universe,

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Speaker 2: Dodgers Guardians one of the nightcap as we roll in

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Speaker 2: Dodgers offense, they really need hats for bats. They need

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Speaker 2: some rum sacrifice to Joe bou because on a nightly basis,

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Speaker 2: it's still a problem. The Mets let you down like

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Speaker 2: they have Jason in these spots so many times, basses

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Speaker 2: loaded nothing, doing the comedy of errors before finally succumbing

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Speaker 2: to the Saint Louis Cardinals. It's out final from Chavez Ravine.

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Speaker 2: It's for to one. At least they avoided the shutout

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Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman with the solo homer, but the Mets Saint

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Speaker 2: Louis came in and look, that's a good place to

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Speaker 2: start our two. We got plenty of time talking about

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Speaker 2: the NCAA and the Final four, and it's something I

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Speaker 2: approached a little bit with Arnie Spanier yesterday. Jared, you

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Speaker 2: know a lot of these surveys about having to skip

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Speaker 2: games because of cost considerations, etc. Not just going to them,

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Speaker 2: which is another topic we'll get into in terms of

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Speaker 2: early season attendance for some magnificent performances, but just in

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Speaker 2: terms of streaming and consumption. And you and I were

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Speaker 2: conversing while having multi screen experiences. You showed me your

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Speaker 2: couple of television opportunities. I had a game on radio

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Speaker 2: off the iHeartRadio app plus my MLB TV and that

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Speaker 2: was on one device. Second device MLB TV part two

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Speaker 2: to have another game going, so you know, a ver

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Speaker 2: But just to that extent, we live in wondrous times,

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Speaker 2: sometimes maddening, oftentimes maddening. But you know, for the purpose

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Speaker 2: of our job and our general love of sport, boy,

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Speaker 2: isn't it great to just go, hey, which app all right?

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Speaker 2: more of that. It is a glorious space, the technological revolution,

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Speaker 1: So I remember when my mom first got our satellite

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Speaker 1: MLBtv became a thing blah blah blah blah, and and

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Speaker 1: then that's when I was able to watched the Yankees

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Speaker 1: in life. So that access, Mike, I think is so

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Speaker 1: if you want to watch all one sixty two Yankees games,

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Speaker 1: you have to have access to like nine different platforms.

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Speaker 1: It's like Peacock, it's Amazon, It's Yes, it's like it's

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Speaker 1: Even then, you couldn't watch all the games. Now it's

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Speaker 2: Well, but that's the thing, and it comes down to choice.

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Speaker 2: And I always get made out like I'm the guy

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Speaker 2: insert league here, you couldn't do it right. You waited

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Speaker 2: on the newspaper. We had and I've joked about it,

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Speaker 2: But all of that to say, you know, you may

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Speaker 2: Talk about the World Baseball Classic, talk about some of

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Speaker 2: Swollen Dome. I'm always intrigued as to the decisions people make,

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Speaker 2: Those aren't just innocuous, Hey, let's fill some gaps conversation.

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Speaker 2: We are generally interested in what you like, don't like,

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Speaker 2: because it gives us a little bit of that scope

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Speaker 2: what the league or leagues are trying to do. Wait,

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Speaker 2: they step away all together, right, that they don't buy

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's such a fascinating conversation with sports rights today.

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Speaker 1: You look at the March Madness ratings, which by the way,

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Speaker 1: dropped yesterday, record setting ratings, and I thought Attorney was dead.

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Speaker 1: That's what everyone was telling me after the first week,

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Speaker 1: Attorney dead. It's not enough upsets. It's not enough Cinderella's. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: nobody cares. Most watched NCAA tournament in over twenty years.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the only thing people cared about was the Friday

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Speaker 1: I mean, we did get one kind of sort of Cinderella, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: And if you control information, you control work At Jared

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Speaker 2: Smith Betts is where you find him in the Twitter verse.

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Speaker 2: Find me over at Swallodome. So he's he's backed Brad Underwood.

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Speaker 1: order to win these pools. Like you can't pick like

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Speaker 1: I picked Duke to win. Like oh, like real sharp, Derek,

435
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Speaker 1: you're the gambling guy, like you picked the most popular

436
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Speaker 1: team and the number one overall seed to win. But

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Speaker 1: I'm not good at the brad. I fully admit that

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Speaker 1: the bracket and me are not friends. It's not something

439
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Speaker 1: I've done well over the years. I've wanted one. I mean,

440
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Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be this gambling guru. I've won the

441
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Speaker 1: bracket once in my entire life. It was my fraternity

442
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Speaker 1: pool back in two thousand and seven when Kansas and

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Speaker 1: Memphis played in the championship game and Mario Chalmers hit

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Speaker 1: the shot i Kansas winning at all. That was the

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Speaker 1: only time I've ever won the bracket pool in my

446
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Speaker 1: entire life doing it, and it was only like forty

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Speaker 1: people in the pool in our frat. So it's not

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Speaker 1: my thing that I'm good at. But you have to

449
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Speaker 1: be outside the box in order to win this thing,

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Speaker 1: and then you have to be right well. But the

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Speaker 1: harder part.

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Speaker 2: But that's the thing, right in terms of you and

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Speaker 2: I were having this conversation a little bit earlier, and

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Speaker 2: it was interesting with Aaron Torres here on Monday that

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Speaker 2: our final four bracket had had aligned right, different outcomes

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Speaker 2: for those games and a winner, but just the idea

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Speaker 2: to that point, and obviously that just got blown to hell.

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Speaker 2: I Aoway stayed on one side missing one of their

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Speaker 2: leaders two minutes into the first game. Okay, that changes

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Speaker 2: that math.

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Speaker 1: He told me that happened. I wouldn't have picked them

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Speaker 1: to make the Final four, right, you were like Jared,

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Speaker 1: I always state it's gonna lose the best player, one

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Speaker 1: of the best players in the country in the first

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Speaker 1: five minutes of their first game. I'm probably not picking

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Speaker 1: them to beat Michigan in the early eight.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I did not see that. I have that moment

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Speaker 2: of clarity coming in.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 2: I did not like to not.

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Speaker 1: Have that spirituality journey.

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Speaker 2: And part of it for me is also the the

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Speaker 2: old Marshall going back to thirty eight forty one a

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Speaker 2: D to about one hundred and two a D. You'll

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Speaker 2: get no Laurel crown for out running a Burrow. I

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Speaker 2: E Wow.

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Speaker 1: That's real.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, it's it's one of my favorite quotes. Right,

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Speaker 2: It's like the Will Rogers, even if you're on the

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Speaker 2: right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

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Speaker 2: I got a million of them. But it's the idea

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Speaker 2: that I like that it's a good one. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'll say, I'll send you the print out I have though,

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Speaker 2: But it's just that idea of for the bracket this year,

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Speaker 2: and I think we're all in in kind of that

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Speaker 2: hive mind that there was such a distinction and the

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Speaker 2: numbers bore it out between the top three teams and

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Speaker 2: everybody else, and then that narrow waffer thing of here's

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Speaker 2: tier two and then you get from there. So in

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Speaker 2: terms of distinguishing yourself and to the point of we

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Speaker 2: make radio content. So Jason giving his four picks and

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Speaker 2: me going, yeah, I got the same. That's really not

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Speaker 2: good radio. That's really not thinking outside the box or

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Speaker 2: making an argument for a team that's pretty good that

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Speaker 2: might just need one more possession. Right, you're one possession.

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Speaker 2: You're one miracle shot away from Duke still being alive.

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Speaker 2: Now we can talk about the timeout that wasn't called.

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Speaker 2: We could talk about picking up the dribble. We can

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Speaker 2: talk about how three weeks prior they had a team

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Speaker 2: strategy session about last second, you know, clock management of trade.

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Speaker 2: Who was it? It was for the Bulls Trey Trey Jones.

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Speaker 1: Right, asking about the NBA.

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Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no no. So he was a player

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Speaker 2: player at Duke, right, who playing between the Bulls and

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Speaker 2: the Suns. Just having that momentary freeze as I'm watching

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Speaker 2: more monitors.

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Speaker 1: And I feel like this is like one of those

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Speaker 1: wordle games.

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Speaker 2: No no, but so for Trey Jones, right, thirteen points

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Speaker 2: a game for the Bulls, but he played two years

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Speaker 2: at Duke. He was in a situation end of game

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Speaker 2: against the Suns just a couple of weeks ago, and

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Speaker 2: they used it and they put it up on their

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Speaker 2: Duke Men's basketball official Twitter account of all right, what

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Speaker 2: can he do? Where's he gonna go? What's it? And

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Speaker 2: ultimately he's kind of falling out of bounds. What's he do?

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Speaker 2: He just wings it up in the air, clock runs out,

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Speaker 2: ball lands winner and as he's walking off, I kid

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Speaker 2: you not, you can go and find the video of it.

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Speaker 2: He goes Duke Education. That's Duke Education, haha, and walks

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Speaker 2: off fast. Forward three weeks later, similar game. Circumstance, down distance,

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Speaker 2: not so fast. Tried to make the pass right play opportunity.

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Speaker 2: If he gets it through those guys, yeah, then the

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Speaker 2: game's over. Guess what he didn't didn't get it high enough,

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Speaker 2: didn't get it past the outstretched arm, and so your

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Speaker 2: call wasn't necessarily wrong. Unfortunately, the result was just like

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Speaker 2: the ABS system right, waftra thin between. I'm right, I'm wrong.

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Speaker 2: But what are we doing? We're keeping a scorecard. Did

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Speaker 2: he get overturned? Yes, haha, he's got to be a

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Speaker 2: bad umpire. No, it's a game of you know margins. Now,

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Speaker 2: if you call a guy safe who stomps in the

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Speaker 2: middle of a base, then we got a problem. But

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Speaker 2: all of that said, you know, we have had a

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Speaker 2: Final four where we've gotten, for the most part, where

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Speaker 2: we thought we would be Yukon. We knew they'd be

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Speaker 2: a threat. Did you think they'd necessarily get here? Maybe?

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Speaker 2: Maybe not. But with Danny Hurley and some of those

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Speaker 2: veteran players, you're there, Illinois. If you watch the Big Ten,

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Speaker 2: you saw a team that was pretty good in a

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Speaker 2: very deep field.

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Speaker 1: Upside major upside. They had the number one offense and

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Speaker 1: Ken Palm's rating this year. I mean, that's what we're

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Speaker 1: talking about the end of the day, Mike, listen to this.

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Speaker 1: I mean three out of the top four, three out

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Speaker 1: of the final four teams are in the top four

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Speaker 1: of ten Palms ratings, and the other ones the team

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Speaker 1: that's won two national titles in the last three years.

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Speaker 1: So it's still a very chalky tournament. Despite the madness

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Speaker 1: that we saw at the end, Michigan and Arizona very

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Speaker 1: predictable one seeds. I mean, if you listen to countdown

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Speaker 1: the Saturday before the tournament, I said Michigan, Arizona and

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Speaker 1: Duke were historically good in terms of their net rating,

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Speaker 1: and if either one of those three teams won the tournament,

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Speaker 1: it would set the bar higher for the highest net

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Speaker 1: rating of any team that's won the national championship entering

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Speaker 1: the tournament, and guests who really frankly, three of the

557
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Speaker 1: final four teams should have been minus the Duke meltdown, Michigan, Arizona, Duke.

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Speaker 1: So I think it's still playing out relatively predictable. But

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Speaker 1: as Alex foresaw in his journey, he had his moment.

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Speaker 1: The Illinoi Ones really the one that was kind of

561
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Speaker 1: the curve ball. And if they do end up winning

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Speaker 1: at all, that's what will go down in sports immortality.

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Speaker 1: If you're the one that predicted the Illinois winning the

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Speaker 1: national championship this year when you had Michigan Arizona Duke

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Speaker 1: in an of course, Yukon being the historically great franchise

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Speaker 1: program that is also in the final four, but it's

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Speaker 1: Illinois that ends up winning it. That's pretty darn good

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Speaker 1: in terms of prognostication.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and like so many, I didn't realize they'd become

570
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Speaker 2: the popular pick for popular people. I had had Saint

571
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Speaker 2: John's right there was my fourth. Well they let me down.

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Speaker 1: I had a shot too. That Duke game was tight.

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Speaker 1: Listen was walking the tightrope right, the same all the

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Speaker 1: way from dancing around and Saint John's had a big lead.

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Speaker 1: They were walking the tightrope. Finally they got blown off

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Speaker 1: the blown off the mountain.

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Speaker 2: See now I want to listen to uh Stevie Ray

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Speaker 2: Vaughn and tightrope. Maybe I'll do that the next time

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Speaker 2: we pay some bills here in just a couple of minutes.

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Speaker 2: But we'll get back to actually picking said games here

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Speaker 2: as we continue in a moment, get some of Jared's

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Speaker 2: observations as we run up on Saturday's games, and of

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Speaker 2: course on countdown he and Brian and Rich will break

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Speaker 2: them down in full. We'll give you a teas trailer

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Speaker 2: as it were coming up next, but first with everything

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Speaker 2: going on in our sporting universe. Yeah, she's a heavyweight.

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Speaker 7: It's yeah, thank you Chris Brossard. Guys, Amy, Kay, that

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Speaker 7: is it scene mimicking my Yeah, yeah, wow, yeah, that's it.

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Speaker 2: Exactly, bad job by him.

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Speaker 6: He got really into it.

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Speaker 2: He tried it.

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Speaker 7: Ay, I really into it exactly. It's third quarter between

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Speaker 7: the Spurs and the Warriors. San Antonio is up right now,

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Speaker 7: seventy three to fifty five and Victor Winn Banyama has

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Speaker 7: thirty points and thirteen rebounds. Warriors are hoping to get

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Speaker 7: Steph Curry back this weekend, specifically on Sunday against the Rockets.

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Speaker 7: He has missed the last twenty five games with a

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Speaker 7: knee injury. The seventy six Ers took down the tanking

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Speaker 7: Wizards one fifty three to one thirty one, but this

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Speaker 7: is important because the Raptors loss to the Kings one

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Speaker 7: twenty three to one fifteen, so Philadelphia has officially surpassed

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Speaker 7: Toronto out of the playing tournament right now in the

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Speaker 7: Eastern Conference, So that was a whole flip that happened.

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Speaker 7: In today's games, the Hawks defeated the Magic in Orlando

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Speaker 7: one thirty to one oh one, Celtics over the Heat

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Speaker 7: one forty seven to one twenty nine, where Jalen Brown

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Speaker 7: had forty three points while Jason Tatum had a triple

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Speaker 7: double and Jamal Murray had thirty seven points, and the

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Speaker 7: Nuggets defeated the Jazz one thirty to one. Seventeen. All

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Speaker 7: of the baseball games have wrapped up. The Guardians defeated

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Speaker 7: the Dodgers four to one. Pitcher Gavin Williams through seven

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Speaker 7: scoreless innings, struck out ten. Jsseramidez had a two run

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Speaker 7: shot in the win. Jonathan India hit a grand slam

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Speaker 7: as the Royals outscored the Twins thirteen to nine. Padres

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Speaker 7: outscored the Giants seven to one and avoid the three

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Speaker 7: games sweep. Paul Goldschmidt hit a three run shot for

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Speaker 7: the Yankees. They defeated the Mariners five to three in Seattle.

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Speaker 7: When it comes to the NHL three games on this

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Speaker 7: Wednesday night. After three periods, the Blues and the Kings

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Speaker 7: are headed to overtime, tied at one apiece. With less

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Speaker 7: than two minutes to go. The Ducks lead the Sharks

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Speaker 7: three to two. They're in the third period. The Canucks

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Speaker 7: are he defeated the Avalanche eight to two. In NFL news,

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Speaker 7: the California Post reports that Rams wide receiver Pukinakua is

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Speaker 7: currently at a rehab treatment center in Malibu and entered

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Speaker 7: rehab prior to the recent allegations that he bid a

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Speaker 7: woman on New Year's Eve. TMZ reports that court documents

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Speaker 7: state that Tiger Woods has requested to seek comprehensive in

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Speaker 7: patient treatment outside of the US to protect his privacy.

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Speaker 7: A judge has approved his requests and woods next schedule

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Speaker 7: court date is in early May, while the PGA of

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Speaker 7: America released a statement saying that Woods has withdrawn his

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Speaker 7: name from consideration for the twenty twenty twenty seven US

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Speaker 7: Ryder Cup.

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Speaker 6: Captain c Role busy day back to you, guys.

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Speaker 2: That's a lot nice work. Monsi anclogos where you find

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Speaker 2: her in the Twitter verse, catcher here at Fox Sports Radio,

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Speaker 2: at the news desks and hosting on the weekends and

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Speaker 2: sometimes during the week She's everywhere. Savoy Fair, It's everywhere.

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Speaker 1: I at Jared Smisa, Well.

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Speaker 2: I mean the long road begins with that first step.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, we're all someone on their bibblehead connoisseur.

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Speaker 2: Apparently, Hey, look that's a two hundred dollars bam, it's

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Speaker 2: not going anywhere.

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Speaker 1: They did today with like Yo like Spider Man.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Donic Lover the first pitch. That was cool. I

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Speaker 2: really liked all the players. They were presented with theirs

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Speaker 2: and they went and grabbed it and had Yamamoto signed

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Speaker 2: the nose like that was pretty cool.

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Speaker 6: It was cool.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So if I could smuggle one of actually that's

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Speaker 2: he ever does a public signing, I mean I might

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Speaker 2: have to buy one of the bobbleheads. You absolutely have

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Speaker 2: to there you go get into that market.

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Speaker 1: So you like they're like a cult following, like who

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Speaker 1: has them, and like the types that they have, like

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Speaker 1: the Star Wars one.

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Speaker 2: From many years ago, because that's one thing.

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Speaker 1: I'll be honest with something goals like I would love

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Speaker 1: someone to, you know, memorialize me one day with the

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Speaker 1: bibble I'm.

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Speaker 2: Still waiting on the trading card appearance. We haven't been

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Speaker 2: able to pull that one off just yet. If anybody's

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Speaker 2: listening out there, I don't know fanatics tops uh, let's

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Speaker 2: go H. But all of that to say, yeah, it's there,

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Speaker 2: and I'm trying to get back to as lean as

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Speaker 2: I was in that one. They did meet a solid uh.

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Speaker 2: And I'm actually in the Bobblehead Hall of Fame book

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Speaker 2: right bank roll to biceps and I've got a couple

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Speaker 2: of those two may we're fantasy. Yeah, but you should

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Speaker 2: there it is, get it out there along road, all right,

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Speaker 2: Thanks Manzi at Monty Belangos. As we continue, we'll actually

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Speaker 2: get back into the games themselves, try to parse out

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Speaker 2: a couple of winners for the Monday night finale in

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Speaker 2: the National UH title game. So we'll do that as

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Speaker 2: at the games proper, as we get into our final

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Speaker 2: throes of this college basketball smorgasbord, as it were so

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Speaker 2: many games, so little time, all the channels, all of

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Speaker 2: the big plays, and let's call it what it is,

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Speaker 2: frustrations from many with bracketology or perhaps in their betting markets.

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Speaker 2: For me, I was in first place on Friday, so

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Speaker 2: I made sure to screenshot it, knowing my bracket was

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Speaker 2: going to hell. But Illinois a two point narrow favorite.

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Speaker 2: One thirty nine is your total against yukon this one.

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Speaker 2: Even with that low total, I'm really looking at the

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Speaker 2: downward pressure of the way these two teams play to

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Speaker 2: where that one thirty nine is appetizing. But you know,

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Speaker 2: the Big Ten apologist in me uh looks at Illinois,

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Speaker 2: even though I want to interview Alex Caravan again because

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Speaker 2: it's become an annual tradition.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think if you're a Yukon fan and you

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Speaker 1: got past duke with Caravan playing, maybe like the worst

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Speaker 1: game of his school was.

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Speaker 2: He two of ten, but obviously the biggest cist at

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Speaker 2: the end.

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Speaker 1: The biggest sist, huge and huge, one of six from three,

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Speaker 1: one of four from two, So yeah, I'm no math major,

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Speaker 1: but that's two of ten, boom, and then the biggest cist. Really,

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Speaker 1: I think Terris Reid is the guy that the game

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Speaker 1: runs through for Yukon. But here's the thing. Illinois. Illinois

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Speaker 1: a really interesting team. Illinois is a team that, like

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Speaker 1: when I was looking at the rating, for example, it's

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Speaker 1: always fun when teams have a rematch in the tournament

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Speaker 1: or even in the Big Ten Conference tournament from early

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Speaker 1: in the season, right like Iowa and Illinois played each

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Speaker 1: other in January and then they played each other again

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Speaker 1: in late March, so we had two and a half

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Speaker 1: months of data points between their two games, and the

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Speaker 1: fact that it was the game was basically a pick

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Speaker 1: them Iowa. You know, the game was at Iowa, and

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Speaker 1: I think Illinois was like a one point favorite, so

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Speaker 1: it's basically a pick them. And then you flash forward

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Speaker 1: two months, and this was after Iowa had upset Florida,

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Speaker 1: the defending national champs, and Illinois was a seven plus

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Speaker 1: point favorite on a neutral. That tells me that the

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Speaker 1: rating increase for Illinois in that two and a half

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Speaker 1: month stretch was really significant. The market has become really

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Speaker 1: hot on Illinois. They have increased their level of play dramatically,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's always interesting when a team kind

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Speaker 1: of congeals together over the long haul of the season,

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Speaker 1: because we like to look back at games that took

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Speaker 1: place in prior parts of the year. For example, in

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Speaker 1: November when Illinois played Yukon and they lost by thirteen. Well,

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Speaker 1: now again you flash forward three months, four months, five

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Speaker 1: months from that point, and now Illinois is the favorite.

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Speaker 1: So it just I think Illinois a very different team.

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Speaker 1: They're long, they're incredibly athletic in the front court. This

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Speaker 1: is the year of the Bigs. In college battle for

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Speaker 1: like it really is. You know, Michigan's got a couple

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Speaker 1: of them that will talk about Arizona is so loaded

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Speaker 1: Duke obviously with the Boozer kid, you know he's one

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Speaker 1: of the best. But Illinoi's got this a Visach kid,

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Speaker 1: and the Markovic kid and and Stoyakovic. I mean, these

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Speaker 1: are all six seven six' eight six nine seven foot

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Speaker 1: players that can all shoot the three very euro friendly,

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Speaker 1: game AND i honestly think the right team's favored. HERE

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Speaker 1: i think Unless, caravan you, know lights out And Terris

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Speaker 1: reid as another twenty and ten, GAME i don't know

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Speaker 1: If yukon's got the horses to keep up with, this

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Speaker 1: The alni team that seems to be peaking at the right.

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Speaker 2: Time, yeah, obviously these Certain stoyyakovic folks and shades of

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Speaker 2: the old man and everything going out. There illinois the

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Speaker 2: tale of the tape over the course of the season

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Speaker 2: about six points better per. Game we look at the

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Speaker 2: field goal, percentage slight edge To yukon, there But illinois

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Speaker 2: with that depth and just that, story with What underwood's

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Speaker 2: been able to put together on this, squad the little

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Speaker 2: there are three, seeds so by no means some true underdog,

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Speaker 2: historically but they match up really. Well the game Against,

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Speaker 2: iowa that was a great battle until all of a

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Speaker 2: sudden it was the snap the, Finger Steve kurse style

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Speaker 2: and a twenty one to eight finish to take down

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Speaker 2: The hawkeyes in that. One we'll talk about the other,

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Speaker 2: Game michigan And arizona a little bit as we continue

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Speaker 2: here At Fox Sports, radio but talking about a potential

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Speaker 2: return to THE nfl for one, Quarterback, no not that,

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Speaker 2: one somebody, else and it might not be with the

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